APPENDICES : I. TEXT OF THE RESOLUTION DATED 7TH MAY, 1990 SETTING UP THE NPE REVIEW COMMITTEE.
Despite efforts at social and economic development since attainment of Independence, a majority of our people continue to remain deprived of education, which is one of the basic needs for human development. It is also a matter of grave concern that our people comprise 50 per- cent of the world's illiterate, and large sections of children have to go without acceptable level of primary education. Government accords the highest priority to education both as a human right and as the means for bringing_ about a transformation towards a more humane and enlightened society. There is need to make education an effective instrument for securing a status of equality for women, and persons belonging to the backward classes and minorities. Moreover, it is essential to give a work and employment orientation to education and to exclude from it the elitist aberrations which have become the glaring characteristic of the educational scene. Educational institutions are increasingly being influenced by casteism, communalism and obscurantism and it is necessary to lay special emphasis on struggle against this phenomenon and to move towards a genuinely egalitarian and, secular social order. The National Policy on Education 1986 (NPE), needs to be reviewed to evolve a framework which would enable the country to move towards this perspective of education.
2. Government have, therefore, decided to set up NPE Review Committee with the following composition:
1. Acharya Ramamurti Chairman
PO Khadigram, Distt. Munger
Bihar.
2. Prof. C N R Rao Member
Director
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore.
3. Dr. Sukhdev Singh of Member
Formerly Vice-Chancellor
Punjab and MP Agricultural
Universities.
4. Dr. M. Santappa Member
Formerly vice-chancellor
Madras University.
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5. Dr. Obaid Siddiqi Member
Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Bombay.
6. Dr. Bhaskar Ray Chaudhuri Member
Vice-Chancellor,
Calcutta University
Calcutta.
7. Shri M.G. Bhatawdekar Member
Formerly Principal
Maharaja College Jaipur
8. Prof. Usha Mehta Member
Political Scientist and
Teacher Bombay.
9. Prof, Satchidanand Murty Member
Sangam Jagarlamudi
Guntur.
10. Dr. Anil Sadgopal Member
Kishore Bharati
Hoshangabad.
11. Father T.V. Kunnunkal Member
chairman, National
Open School New Delhi.
12. Prof. Mrinal Miri Member
Professor of Philosophy,
North Eastern Hill University
Shillong.
13. Dr. Vidya Niwas Misra Member
Vice-Chancellor
Kashi Vidyapeeth
Varanasi.
14. Shri S.Z. Qasim Member
Vice-Chancellor Jamia Millia
Islamia New Delhi.
15. Shri Veda Vyasa Member
Chairman
DAV College Management Committee
New Delhi.
16. Shri Manubhai Pancholi Member
Lok Bharati, Sanosara
Distt. Bhavnagar.
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17.Shri S. Gopalan Member-Secretary
Additional Secretary
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Department of Education
New Delhi.
3. The terms of reference of the Committee will be as follows:
(a) to review the National Policy on Education, 1986 its implementation;
(b) to make recommendations regarding revision of the Policy; and
(c) to recommend action necessary for implementation of revised policy within a timeframe.
4. The committee will devise its own procedure of work submit its report as soon as possible, but not later than six months from the date of issue of the order. It may submit interim reports as may be considered appropriate.
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